President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the elimination of the US Department of Education. If he’s successful in abolishing the agency, special education students and rural and lower income communities in North Carolina could lose crucial support.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson on Monday announced that he’s joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over frozen education funds.
The GOP-dominated NC Supreme Court decision vacates a 2023 trial court order requiring the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars for public education.
As a former educator in Buncombe County, State Rep. Lindsey Prather, a Democrat from western NC, says she understands the struggles teachers face in paying their bills.
A nonpartisan organization recently ranked NC at the bottom of the nation for public education funding in several metrics, including last in the nation for school funding effort.
Cardinal & Pine spoke with Rep. Lindsay Prather, a former educator, about the pay North Carolina teachers are getting. She says they’re being tricked.
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson says the Trump administration has reversed course on the $165 million it was withholding from North Carolina’s public schools.
A former social studies teacher in NC public schools says state and federal leaders are failing to uphold their obligation to education.
After years of targeting things like “critical race theory” and education on racial injustice, right-wingers in NC have a new enemy in SEL.
With an executive order signed, President Trump’s move to dismantle the US Department of Education could strip North Carolina public schools of critical federal funding—raising questions on how the state will fill the gap.
